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...energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer Miki Sekers, finally got back to Kensington Palace just before dawn...
...figures, one of the largest Haniwa exhibits ever held. Among the prize examples from private and public collections all over Japan were seven objects now officially classified as unexportable "Important Cultural Assets," only one cut below "National Treasure." (But even with Japan's leading Haniwa expert, Professor Fumio Miki, on watch, two examples had to be withdrawn as suspected fakes after the catalogue had gone to press...
...customarily had been buried alive with their masters. Historians scuttled this colorful explanation by discovering that Haniwa figures were not made until centuries after inin's rule. Best bet is that the Haniwa figures, along with houses and boats, were meant to console the dead. Says Expert Fumio Miki: "We can only surmise from the data on hand that they were grave decorations, much in the manner of flower wreaths used today in Japan...
...Japanese public responded. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama set the example by returning his treasured marimo. Transportation Minister Takeo Miki visited Lake Akan in person and gave two marimos their freedom. A hotel owner in Tokyo apprehended a marimo snatcher with 150 captives. Out of hidden aquariums came hundreds more...
...succession of some 32 tenants, at least one of whom (Georges Clemenceau's daughter) remembered her in a will. When not smiling at her tenants, Mme. Muairon impartially turns her beatitude on the dustman, the postman, her husband Arthur, her devoted children Roger and Liliane and the cats Miki and Mikette...